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2018/2019 was a series of

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tournaments that took place during the 2018–19 season. It was a second-tier tour for players not on the main

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. The top two players in the final rankings earned a two-year card to the World Snooker Tour for 2019–20. Brandon Sargeant was certain of his place in the top two even before the final event. Prior to the draw for the final event, Sargeant led the rankings and only David Grace and

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could catch him. Sargeant could only drop to third if both Grace and Mann reached the final. However, when Grace and Mann were drawn in the same half of the draw, Sargeant was guaranteed his place in the top two. Grace guaranteed his place in the top two after his two nearest challengers, Mann and

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, both lost on the first day of the final event. After the season had been finished, additional places became available on the main tour for 2019/2020 season and it was decided that an extra tour place would be given to the third placed player on the ranking list,

Format

Each event had a maximum field of 64. The leading 64 players in the 2018 Q School Order of Merit, excluding the 12 who qualified for the main tour, were automatically eligible to play. If some of these did not enter, eight wildcards became eligible and if there are still less than 64 entries, players outside the top-64 in the Q School Order of Merit could enter. All matches were over five frames. The winner of each event received prize money of £2,000 out of a total of £10,000. The runner-up received £1,000, semi-finalists £700, quarter-finalists £500, last-16 losers £200 and last-32 losers £125.

Schedule

Source: The event at Riga was planned for two days, but with only 25 entries, it was played in a single day.

Rankings

The leaders in the rankings were: Source: Players in the qualifying places are shown in green. Initially two qualifying places were available but a third place was allocated after the end of the season.

References

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